Saturday, February 27, 2010
There is a reason that www.DrMartinRussell.com is titled ‘Self Help 101′.
Self Help is what I am passionate about for you most of all.
And there are many areas for self help I want to offer, for example:
– mental / psychological (of course)
– physical health
– spiritual / religion (yes, really)
– relationships
– but [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Turned on the TV this morning and the breakfast host is extolling a vegetable soup recipe.
Apparently people have been desperately wanting to know more about this recipe that claims to help people lose weight between Christmas and New Year.
Yuk!
I have no problem with soup. I have a problem with the TV program promoting a yo-yo [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Self help can often seem very individual and isolated.
However when I say ’self help’ it includes the idea that no man/woman is an island.
If you are reading this then chances are you are in a very priviledged position compared to most of the 6+ billion humans on this planet.
There is an entire world around us [...]
The problem with studying exercise for weight loss is that you can’t really disguise the exercise.
If exercise came in a pill you could do it.
You could get a big group of people and randomly give half the pill with exercise in it, and the other half a dummy, sugar pill that looks, smells, tastes etc [...]
In the world Olympic event for obesity, apparently the US has been dethroned.
Turns out in the “Australia’s Future Fat Bomb” Report as splashed across The Age newspaper that Aussies have put in a gold medal winning performance. This report finds that 26% of Australians are obese (BMI >30 ie significantly overweight) just pipping the US [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Last year in September I wrote about a 47-year old professor, Randy Pausch, and his inspirational “Last Lecture” following his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.
If you want to know why death is such an important part of being human, then view the video on my previous post.
Back then he had wide publicity, from Good Morning America [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
New Year’s Resolutions are a self help cliche.
New Year’s Resolutions have the biggest reputation for not working out, despite being one of the most common goal setting methods.
If you want to invoke cynicism just say, “This is my New Year’s Resolution!”
So what do I recommend?
Well hint one is, keep all this in perspective.
I suspect that [...]